Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-05
DURING HOT WEATHER..
BITS OF GOOD ADVICE FROM AN
OBSERvANT PHYSICIAN.

EXCESS Should He Avoided With Every
Kind Of Food-what Not to Drink
Dress-Rest and Observation-Disclosures Sea
Bathing.
In extremely hot weather il Is very inn
portant what (and how much) people eat.
Food that can be easily digested should be
eaten, such as perfectly ripe fruit, vege-
tables n cereals. Very little meat should
be taken. Animal food is heating and
should be INDUCED in very moderately.
Indeed, excess should be avoided with
every kind of food. 1t is very hurtful TO
throw into the stomach, while eating, n
quantity Of extremely cold fluid, as it
lowers the temperature and binders diges-
ton. The stomach is at a certain tenn
p~erature while performing its functions,
! and il that temperature is lowered by tho
introduction Of the cold fluid, the process
of digestion il arrested and the food goes
undigested into the intestinal canal and
causes great distress. Cramps, cholera,
summer complaint, are all induced by
such carelessness. In cities, where it is
e TO impossible TO obtain fresh fruit
and vegetables, it is better for those not
in robust health to abstain from eating
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on cereals and milk.
do not believe in the use OF alcohol TO
any great extent. The first effect is APP
parently cooling, but then comes a reac-
tiCn, and one becomes warmer and thirst
ier han ever. Those who indulge freely
in alcoholic drinks in extremely hot
weather are tempting Providence, and
are likely to be among the victims of sun.
1 ltrnRa DrinEinu IarDalv Of loo cold NIofnr
Is bad; il is better to rinse the mouth with
cool water frequently and avoid swallow
ing so much. OF course every one knows
that keeping in the shade, and in n cool
draught Of air, is conducive to comfort in
warm weather, but every one cannot do
this. Where there are hundreds who can
afford to go away to the country or the
seaside and rest, there are thousands who
have to stay in the hot city, pursuing
their work just as usual with, perhaps, q
couple of weeks vacation. These are the
ones who should be careful how they live.
The best way to dress is to wear thin
wooden material next to the skin, as little
outside clothing as possible and that of a
light color. Dark colors draw the heat
and light ones repel it. 1t is prudent to
carry an umbrella or some protection for
the head, at least during the middle of the
day.
Persons of q full habit are generally
more easily affected by the heat thar thin
people, but this is not an invariablc rule.
The brainworker who Is thin would be
more likely TO suffer from intense warm
weather than the fat laborer, for the rea-
son that the active brain is much more
sensitive than the duh one. OF course
the professional man, leading n more or
less sedentary life, Is not apt to become so
overheated by eXertion as one who works
with his hands. Nevertheless, when it
comes TO exposure to the direct rays of the
sun, the stolid brain has the best Of il.
The artificial life people lead at most Of
our watering places is not productive Of
as InIch benefit as one would think should
be derived from a summer of rest and en-
joymcnt. There are the same pleasures,
the same dissipation hat they have had in
| the city; only the scene is changed. They
keep late hours and undergo fatigues
which, if encountered in any useful occu-
patton, would be pronounced %insupport-
able. Life is thus Slapped instead Of
strengthened. This is what most of the
fashionable resorts do for us. What you
want for a real, wholesome recruiting of
strength lost is n quiet summer in a quiet
place. 1t is not necessary TO be buried on
a farm, and yet nothing can be sweeter or
purer than farm sights, sounds and smells,
where you can have your chosen spot-a
refuge when you are tired of being with
people and long to with nature
and to be still.
If it is impossible to 90 away and stay
for n few weeks the short daily trips to
points near at hand are better than moth
ing. That is all that can be said for
them. The fatigue consequent upon get
ting TO any given point and coming home
again largely detracts from any good
which may be obtained. This is especially
so in the case of children.
Sea bathing is very good for the major
ity Of people. There are some, however,
who should never indulge in it. If the skin
turns a purplish color and the teeth chat
ter, and the feeling upon leaving the water
is one Of debility rather than exhilara-
ton, 1t shows that the bather is not bene-
fited.-Dr. Willard Parker in The Epoch.